GOODS TRAIN DERAILED.
_. EXPRESSES DELAYED. (PKESB ASSOCIATION TSLEQRAJi.) •INVERCARGILL, November ?£>, Meagre particulars pf the derailment of fourteen trucks of a goods train, near Balclutha, reached InvercargiU this evening. The train is one that runs from Clinton to Balclutha, and when between Warepa and Poiro at a spot some fifteen miles south of Balclutha, the trucks left the rails. A breakdown train was dispatched from InvercargiU at 7.C0 attached to the, night express, which was delayed for pver an hour, Passengers, by tho through express from CJiristohurch were transhipped to a train made up at Clinton and reached here at 11 p-m-It has beep ascertained that no one was injured, nor was there any stock on the train, and there is yet no indication as to whether the derailed waggons were loaded or empty.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19481, 30 November 1928, Page 8
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